Cheese & Eggs

Appears in
top 1000The Carved Angel Cookery Book
The Carved Angel Cookery Book

By Joyce Molyneux

Published 1990

  • About

Ten years ago somebody mentioned in passing that there was a woman at Blackawton, just outside Dartmouth, whose happy brood of free-range hens laid superb eggs. We got in touch with Gladys Hunt, and her first delivery was soon on our doorstep. Her eggs were quite special, with big orange-yellow yolks, the kind that people remember from a country childhood.

She still delivers to us twice a week, and the eggs are as good as ever. It is very easy to take eggs for granted, and to be lulled into thinking that one egg is much the same as another. I don’t know exactly what it is that Gladys feeds to her hens, but there is no doubt in my mind that they enjoy a good diet, devoid of processed foodstuffs, and the freedom to scratch round in the open. As a result the eggs they lay have an intensely ‘eggy’ taste, rich yolks and clear whites, that can’t be matched by battery eggs.